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Re:GOP net neutrality bill would allow paid fast lanes and p... by sctb on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @12:52PM (#15971944)
The guidelines ask us not to do this, please.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re:GOP net neutrality bill would allow paid fast lanes and p... by paulmd on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @09:14AM (#15969615)
Explanation: you have not even done a bare minimum of attention or research on a pivotal internet-freedom issue that has been slow-boiling over the past 3 months and you are still weighing in as if your opinion is informed (let alone intellectually significant) in any respect whatsoever. It's not like it's a real deep and multi-faceted issue or anything here, you just didn't bother to do even a bare minimum of research.

Maybe consider doing the google before weighing in on a major issue before demanding that it be spoon-fed to you.

This sort of post is actually subtly demeaning to everyone else on this forum and lowers the level of discussion here. Try to elevate it instead.

Re:GOP net neutrality bill would allow paid fast lanes and p... by djschnei on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @09:20AM (#15969668)
Yup, I don't hold your opinion so I am uninformed. Asked for your POV, but I'm too dumb to even attempt to explain it to. Must revert to personal slights and putdowns. Ahhhh, politics in 2017.
Re:GOP net neutrality bill would allow paid fast lanes and p... by paulmd on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @09:23AM (#15969693)
Joke's on me, you were only pretending to be an idiot! You were actually just a sealioning libertarian all along!
Re:GOP net neutrality bill would allow paid fast lanes and p... by djschnei on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @09:56AM (#15970014)
Dude, I am trying to understand your POV. F&$%# me right? People paying more for something that costs more to provide seems completely logical to me. The anti-competitive nature of the regional monopolies isn't fair and turns all the normal rules on their heads, I understand that. I wish we would fix that rather than regulating the monopolies.
Re:GOP net neutrality bill would allow paid fast lanes and p... by wtallis on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @10:10AM (#15970149)
> I wish we would fix that rather than regulating the monopolies.

See, that's the kind of bullshit that makes it hard to tell whether you're honestly misinformed, or disingenuous. The ISPs at issue are the ones providing last-mile connectivity. That's a textbook example of a natural monopoly. You can't make it not a natural monopoly. The free market will never settle on a strategy of providing competition in the form of multiple parallel and competing cables along every residential street and driveway. Regulation of the inevitable monopolies is the only solution that doesn't completely ignore reality and basic economic concepts. There's no alternative that can be expected to be at all effective.

Re:GOP net neutrality bill would allow paid fast lanes and p... by AquaMorph on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @09:15AM (#15969621)
Downvoting things I dislike is easier than explaining why I think they are wrong